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Califarnia's Johnny "Rocket" Vollerio (7) grabs
the lead at the start of the SScc Open Main
event on Friday, the first af three days of
Amateur racing at Memorial Coliseum. Vallerio
crashed on Friday but won the class an
Saturday and Sunday.
Valle rio took command of t he 125cc Novice final on
Saturday night and picked up the first of his two w ins.
His second w in came in the ascc O pen class. bea ting loca l
Yama ha rid e r Tyle r Rie h l. Former top 65cc rider Jake "T he
Snake " Loc ks stay ed in contention for the second-place trophy,
but Rie hl had answers lor all 01 Lo cks' challe nges . Oregon 's
N at han Te el linis he d fo urt h , loll owed by Cali lorn ian Jar e d
Ste inke and the rest of the IS-ride r field.
Sacramento's Steinke has for several years been one of the
top SSec riders on t he West C o ast , b ut on t his weekend
Vallerio proved that he's also a force to be reckoned with, by
winning Sunday's 8Scc O pe n final, despite challenges fro m the
Yamaha -mounted St e inke. Rie h l, who was impress ive all
weekend , scored h is th ird consecutive podium finish in t he
class . Tevin Tapia and Locks filled out the to p five.
Sund ay's program was bolstered by the add ition o f several
classes, including an 85cc ( 12-1 5) class . Ste inke , w ho made the
sw itch from Kawasak i to Yamaha last year, imp rove d from his
earlier 85c c O pen results by scoring a w in in th e 85cc ( 12- 15)
class , be at ing one of the weekend 's top performers, Vallerio ,
after a hea d-to-head battle ; Steinke, VaJlerio and Riehl were the
top three . (Riehl wa s also impressive all weekend, finishing in
the to p three every time he competed.) Locks and Temecula,
Ca liforn ia's Brett Hiner rou nded o ut the top five.
One of the most pleas ing classes for the spectators was the
SOc classes. Wash ington's "Mad Max" Harr is posted a pair of
c
overall wins, his final victory of the weekend com ing in Sund ay's
SO (7-8) final, in which he beat Californian Kinser Endicott.
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Californ ian Kevin Hurt put the "hurt" on the co mpetition by
picking up a pair of ove rall Intermed iate-class wins on Saturday.
The Suzuk i-mou nted Cal ifornian w o n the 12Scc and 2S0cc
Intermediate classes and then stormed Sunday 's eve nt , w inning
the 125cc , 250cc Inte rme d iat e and 125 cc Schoo lbo y classes.
Hurt's closest competition in many classes was New Mexico's
Zack G ur le y.
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